Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida has said that the Team ICO game The Last Guardian is still being worked on, however its moving along at a slow pace.
“The project has been making progress, but slow progress. So that’s tough, but we haven’t changed any focus. It’s still a really important project and a vision we want to see realized, and Fumito’s vision is really causing a very difficult challenge for the developers, so there’s some scrapping and rebuilding — iteration in the process. That’s why [it's taking so long].”
Speaking at Cologne’s Gamescom event in August, Yoshida said that the game was “still making progress” and saying that Sony would still “continue to support” it.
Yoshida also commented on Ueda leaving the project full time, stating that it was actually a way for him to do more creative work on the project, and that he still comes in and works the hardest on the game.
“Well it’s confirmed in terms of the status of his relation to the company — he was an employee, and now he’s working on a contract basis,’ said Yoshida.
“You know, we discussed an arrangement so he could focus on the creative side. But his work and his presence on that team never changed, so it was just more a contractual rearrangement, and that was taken as ‘he left’.”
“He comes in every day, and he’s probably one of the people who works the longest hours.”
It seems that The Last Guardian is still alive, which was many peoples worry, however we probably wont be seeing much of it (again) in 2012.
Source: VG24/7
It’s OK, I’m still waiting and am going to keep waiting until The Last Guardian finally comes out. Unlike WarDevil, which still hasn’t released after 7 years. Anyone else ever heard of WarDevil?
I remember EDGE magazine doing a feature on it eons ago and yet not a single thing has come to light. I’m pretty sure it eventually turned into Gears of War didn’t it as it was developed by Epic Games… that’s if memory serves correct. I’m wondering what happened to Huxley, that’s kinda gone AWOL
If only it was an Epic project, it would have had more chance to see light. Ignition disbanded and shutdown a while ago thus the project was delayed a 2nd or 3rd time, but apparently it has now been revived under the Project Kane name and bunch of UK based game developers are still working on it behind the scenes. This was meant to be a PS3 exclusive as the ambition has always been to build Wardevil as a full 1080p game but running so smoothly it will run with CGI level graphics. I think the tech needed was too much and the developer aimed too high at the time as the PS3 was still very young. Here’s hoping Project Kane eventually comes out.
Huxley never saw any official release after it’s 2 beta runs but it was given to a developer called Webzen by NHN USA in Aug 2010 as per wikipedia so I’m hoping its still being built. If it does come though it’ll be a PC exclusive as it has not been tested under any other platform. Initially it was meant to be cross platform.
I wonder if these games will see light of day on next consoles. Ueda did it with ICO, it was meant to be on PS1 but he then adapted it to PS2 and it worked well.
I really got to get back on here, my work hours are hankering me huge at the moment, but I’ve managed to coplete El Shaddai & my 2nd run thru of Uncharted 3 so my comeback is slowly building. Currently doing Child of Eden when possible.